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Bush Pig - District Cop: Service with the British South Africa Police in the Rhodesian Conflict 1965-79 by Ivan Smith 9781909982291
RRP: £16.95£14.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909982291Author Ivan SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
The Great Boer War: The Final Edition Covering the Entire Conflict 1899-1902 by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 9780857063618
£27.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857063618Author Sir Arthur Conan DoyleFormat HardbackPage Count 512Imprint Leonaur LtdPublisher Leonaur LtdWeight(grams) 780g -
Gurkha Odyssey: Campaigning for the Crown Peter Duffell 9781399021920
RRP: £14.99£10.95"A compelling journey through Gurkha history -written with grace and style - it is indeed a wonderful read" - Field Marshal Lord Bramall KG GCB OBE MC It is 1814 and the Bengal Army of the Honourable East India Company is at war with a marauding Nepal... -
The War in the Channel Islands: Then and Now by Winston G. Ramsey
RRP: £28.00£20.62Besides being the only British territory occupied by the Germans in the Second World War, it is perhaps less generally known that the Channel Islands were fortified out of all proportion to the rest of Hitler's Atlantic Wall: a legacy that is explored in... -
The Sword And The Olive: A Critical History Of The Israeli Defense Force Martin Van Creveld 9781586481551
£21.70Combining razor-sharp analysis with dramatic narrative, vivid portraits of soldiers and commanders with illuminating discussions of battle tactics and covert actions, The Sword and the Olive traces the history of the IDF from its beginnings in... -
The German Way of War: A Lesson in Tactical Management Jaap Jan Brouwer 9781526790378
RRP: £25.00£17.62The German Army lost two consecutive wars and the conclusion is often drawn that it simply wasn't able to cope with its opponents. This image is constantly reinforced in literature and in the media, where seemingly brainless operating German units led by... -
The Complete Kincaid of the Rifles-With the 95th (Rifles) During the Napoleonic Wars: Adventures in the Rifle Brigade & Random Shots from a Rifleman by John Kincaid 9780857066688
£13.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857066688Author John KincaidFormat PaperbackPage Count 372Imprint Leonaur LtdPublisher Leonaur LtdWeight(grams) 472g -
Anna and Dr Helmy: How an Egyptian Doctor Saved a Jewish Girl in Hitler's Berlin by Ronen Steinke 9780192893369
RRP: £26.49£18.61The remarkable story of Mohammed Helmy, the Egyptian doctor who risked his life to save Jewish Berliners from the Nazis. One of the people he saved was a Jewish girl called Anna. This book tells their story. The Israeli holocaust memorial at Yad... -
The Solomons 1943-44 by Mark Stille
RRP: £15.99£11.61Victory at Guadalcanal for the Allies in February 1943 left them a vital foothold in the Solomon Islands chain, and was the first step in an attempt to isolate and capture the key Japanese base of Rabaul on New Britain. In order to do this they had to... -
International Security Studies: Theory and Practice by Peter Hough 9780367109868
RRP: £35.99£32.69This new and updated edition of International Security Studies provides students with a comprehensive introduction to the subject of security studies, with a strong emphasis on the use of case studies to illustrate theoretical debates.In addition to... -
Hastings 1066: The Fall of Saxon England Christopher Gravett 9781841761336
RRP: £16.99£14.10Very few battles of the medieval period can be regarded as decisive but Hastings was certainly one of them. Fought on 14th October 1066 between Duke William of Normandy and Harold Godwinson, king of England, the outcome irrevocably changed the course of... -
Panzers of the Wehrmacht: 1933-1945 by Alexander Ludeke 9781473823976
RRP: £12.99£11.56Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Pathan Rising: Jihad on the North West Frontier of India 1897-1898 by Mark Simner 9781781555408
RRP: £25.00£18.54Pathan Rising tells the story of the large-scale tribal unrest that erupted along the North West Frontier of India in the late 1890s; a short but sharp period of violence that was initiated by the Pathan tribesmen against the British. Although the exact... -
Iraq War: Operation Iraqi Freedom 2003 by Anthony Tucker-Jones 9781781591659
RRP: £16.99£12.28The Iraq War is a visual record of the American-led Operation Iraqi Freedom of 2003, which resulted in the dramatic overthrow of dictator Saddam Hussein. In a striking sequence of photographs Anthony Tucker-Jones shows how this was achieved by the... -
The Art of War: A New Translation Jonathan Clements 9781780330013
RRP: £10.99£7.40A new translation for the 21st century.The Art of War by Sun Tzu is one of the most influential political and business books of our era. This gateway edition for the 21st century reader rediscovers the essential clarity of the ancient masterpiece, cited... -
Deliver Us from Evil: Warlords and Peacekeepers in a World of Endless Conflict by William Shawcross 9780747553120 [USED COPY]
RRP: £18.99£2.29We have all seen press and television pictures of winding lines of refugees in Africa or on mountain passes in Europe and felt that 'something must be done'. In this urgent new book William Shawcross reveals what lies behind decisions by the... -
Gunpowder: Alchemy, Bombards, and Pyrotechnics: The History of the Explosive that Changed the World by Jack Kelly 9780465037223
RRP: £12.99£11.95When Chinese alchemists fashioned the first manmade explosion sometime during the tenth century, no one could have foreseen its full revolutionary potential. Invented to frighten evil spirits rather than fuel guns or bombs,neither of which had been... -
The Ulster Covenant: An Illustrated History of the 1912 Home Rule Crisis by Gordon Lucy 9781780730394
RRP: £7.99£7.11On the 28th September 1912, over 470,000 men and women signed Ulster's Solemn League and Covenant. By signing they proclaimed that they would surrender neither their 'civil and religious freedom' nor 'their cherished position of equal citizenship in the... -
Why War? by Christopher Coker 9781787383890
RRP: £20.00£17.62What are humanity's biological origins? What are the mechanisms, including culture, that continue to drive it? What is the history that has allowed it to evolve over time? And what are its functions--how does it survive and thrive by exploiting the... -
The Death of the USS Thresher: The Story Behind History's Deadliest Submarine Disaster by Norman Polmar 9781493027538
RRP: £12.99£11.46A must-read for submarine buffs! On the morning of April 10, 1963, the world's most advanced submarine was on a test dive off the New England coast when she sent a message to a support ship a thousand feet above her on the surface: experiencing minor... -
In the Footsteps of the Band of Brothers: A Return to Easy Company's Battlefields with Sergeant Forrest Guth by Larry Alexander
RRP: £18.85£14.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451233158Author Larry AlexanderFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint New American LibraryPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 372gDimensions(mm)... -
Napoleon and the Struggle for Germany 2 Volume Set: The Franco-Prussian War of 1813 by Michael V. Leggiere
RRP: £30.99£25.37This is the first comprehensive history of the campaign that determined control of Germany following Napoleon's catastrophic defeat in Russia. Michael V. Leggiere reveals how, in the spring of 1813, Prussia, the weakest of the great powers, led the... -
Medieval Mercenaries William Urban 9781848328549
RRP: £25.00£17.62The Middle Ages were a turbulent and violent time, when the fate of nations was most often decided on the battlefield, and strength of arms was key to acquiring and maintaining power. Feudal oaths and local militias were more often than not incapable of... -
Soldiers: Great Stories of War and Peace by Max Hastings 9780008454234 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.99£2.65'A gripping new collection from Max Hastings that puts you at the heart of the battle ... Compelling' Daily Mail 'An unmissable read' Sunday Times Soldiers is a very personal gathering of sparkling, gripping tales by many writers,... -
M: MI5's First Spymaster by Andrew Cook 9780752428963 [USED COPY]
RRP: £20.00£2.29The true story of the real M, MI5s founding father and the inspiration for Ian Flemings James Bond.Book InformationISBN 9780752428963Author Andrew CookFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint NPI Media GroupPublisher The History Press LtdWeight(grams)... -
The Sea Rover's Practice: Pirate Tactics and Techniques, 1630-1730 by Benerson Little 9781574889116
RRP: £16.99£13.92To read of sea roving's various incarnations - piracy, privateering, buccaneering, la flibuste, la course - is to bring forth romantic, and often violent, imagery. Indeed, much of this imagery has become a literary and cinematic cliche?. And what an... -
Sink the Tirpitz 1942-44: The RAF and Fleet Air Arm duel with Germany's mighty battleship by Angus Konstam
RRP: £16.99£14.10This is the story of an air campaign in which each bomb could dramatically influence the course of the war. In January 1942, the powerful German battleship Tirpitz sailed into her new base in a Norwegian fjord, within easy reach of the Arctic Convoys... -
Stations of Coastal Command: Then and Now David Smith 9781870067874
RRP: £37.50£30.66Coastal Command, created in 1936 alongside Fighter and Bomber Commands in the reorganisation of the RAF in its preparations for the coming war, was Britain's mainstay in the battle against the German submarine. As more and more Allied merchantmen were... -
Black Hearts: One Platoon's Descent Into Madness in Iraq's Triangle of Death by Jim Frederick
RRP: £20.00£12.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307450760Author Jim FrederickFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 329gDimensions(mm) 202mm *... -
With the Paras in Helmand: A Photographic Diary by Allen, Craig 9781399020886
RRP: £14.99£13.61Craig Allen, a Paratrooper for 29 years, returned to 2 PARA as a reservist and unofficial photographer for the Battlegroups dramatic 2008 Tour in Helmand. As both a respected soldier and photographer he had unrivalled access to the fighting and moved... -
Masters of War: Classical Strategic Thought Michael I. Handel 9780714681320
RRP: £58.99£51.48This is the first comprehensive study based on a detailed textual analysis of the classical works on war by Clausewitz, Sun Tzu, Mao Tse-tung, and to a lesser extent, Jomini and Machiavelli. Brushing stereotypes aside, the author takes a fresh look at... -
Civil Wars: A History in Ideas by David Armitage
RRP: £12.99£11.46A highly original history of the least understood and most intractable form of organised human aggression, from ancient Rome to our present conflict-ridden world We think we know civil war when we see it. Yet ideas of what it is, and isn't, have a long... -
Operation Hoss: The Deportation of Hungarian Jews to Auschwitz, May-July 1944 by Ian Baxter
RRP: £14.99£10.95Operation Hoss or Aktion Hoss was the codename for the mass deportation of Hungarian Jews and their murder in the gas chambers of Birkenau extermination camp. Between 14 May and 9 July 1944, 420,000 Jews were sent to Auschwitz from Hungary, or about... -
Enter the Past Tense: My Secret Life as a CIA Assassin by Roland W. Haas 9781597971874
RRP: £15.99£13.39"Often reads like the latest entry from Ludlum or Le Carre . . . fascinating."-Book News, Inc.A true story that pulls no punches, Enter the Past Tense also chronicles Haas's descent into, and recovery from, alcoholism that resulted from the stress of... -
1944–45: The Freedom Road by Richard Collier 9781800325951
RRP: £12.99£8.18The end is in sight but the fight is long: the epic and terrifying conclusion to the greatest conflict in historyGoing into 1944, the Allies knew the tide was turning in their favour. But they still faced a monumental task to get to victory.From the... -
History of Air Warfare: From World War I to the Present Day by Malcolm Swanston
RRP: £19.99£14.65No single human invention has changed the nature of war more that the development of the aeroplane. The History of Air Warfare is a highly illustrated and accessible account of the development of aerial warfare, from the first skirmishes over the Western... -
1 Recce: Behind Enemy Lines by Alexander Strachan 9780624085232
RRP: £16.95£14.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780624085232Author Alexander StrachanFormat PaperbackPage Count 324Imprint Tafelberg Publishers LtdPublisher Tafelberg Publishers LtdWeight(grams)... -
Killing the Killers: The Secret War Against Terrorists by Bill O'Reilly 9781250905994
RRP: £15.99£11.61In Killing the Killers, #1 bestselling authors Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard take readers deep inside the global war on terror, which began more than twenty years ago on September 11, 2001. As the World Trade Center buildings collapsed, the Pentagon... -
Thunder Over the Reich: Flying the Luftwaffe's He 162 Jet Fighter by Wolfgang Wollenweber 9781902109398
RRP: £29.95£21.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781902109398Author Wolfgang WollenweberFormat HardbackPage Count 184Imprint Hikoki PublicationsPublisher Hikoki Publications -
Welsh at Passchendaele 1917, The by Jonathan Hicks
RRP: £14.99£8.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781784613747Author Jonathan HicksFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Y LolfaPublisher Y Lolfa